Our Foreigners: A Chronicle of Americans in the MakingOrth, Samuel Peter
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Our Foreigners: A Chronicle of Americans in the Making
Orth, Samuel Peter
Immigrants -- United States; United States -- Emigration and immigration
Pennsylvania, English settle, 5;
Scotch-Irish in, 11-12;
Welsh in, 13;
Germans in, 13, 14, 126-27;
Dutch in, 14;
Jews in, 17;
cosmopolitan character, 19;
western part settled, 33;
slavery, 51;
negroes in, 62;
Dunkards in, 70;
Poles in, 167;
Russians in, 169;
Croatians in, 172;
Slovenians in, 173;
Lithuanians in, 175;
Italian farmers, 212;
landward movement of Slavs in, 213-14;
racial changes, 216, 218-19
Pennsylvania Philosophical Society,
Pietists' astrological instruments in collection of, 70
Petrosino, Lieutenant Joseph, murdered, 231
Peysel, _see_ Beissel
Philadelphia, Welsh near, 13;
cosmopolitan character, 18;
negroes arrested, 51;
Ephrata draws pupils from, 71;
Irish immigrant association, 109;
Irish in, 113;
Italians in, 180
Philippines, Chinese exclusion, 202
Pietists, 69-70
Pine Lake (Wis.), Swedish colony, 155
Pittsburgh, "Boat Load of Knowledge" from, 94
Poles, in America, 160, 167-69, 213, 214-15, 217;
as North Slavs, 164
Politics, foreigners in, 42;
Irish in, 116, 117;
Germans in, 139, 144;
Bohemians in, 166;
Chinese as issue, 193;
selective immigration as issue (1892), 226-27
Population, increase in, 32;
_see also_ Census
Portland, Italians in, 180
Portuguese in United States, 184
Prairie du Rocher, French settlement, 152
Presbyterians, Scotch-Irish, 10
Presidents of United States from American stock, 42
Price, J.C., negro orator, 64
Quakers, Norwegian, 155
Rafinesque, C.S., 95
Railroads, Chinese laborers on, 190
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 5
Rapp, F.R., adopted son of Father Rapp, 75-76
Rapp, J.G., founder of Harmonists, 73;
"Father Rapp," 74;
at Harmony, 73-74;
at New Harmony, 74-75;
at Economy, 75-77
Reconstruction after Civil War, 57-59
Red Bank (N.J.), communistic colony at, 97
Reed, of Missouri, wishes to exclude African immigrants, 232
Republican party on immigration restriction, 226
_Restoration_ (sloop), 155
Revere, Paul, 16
Revolutionary War, Irish in, 108;
Germans and, 127
Rhode Island, French in, 15;
Jews in, 17
Rock Springs (Wyo.), anti-Chinese riot, 200
Roosevelt, Theodore, conference with delegation from California, 205;
on restriction of immigration, 229-30
Root, John, 86-87
Ross, E.A., _The Old World in the New_, cited, 163 (note)
Rumania, Mennonites in, 89
Rush, Benjamin, _Manners of the German Inhabitants of Pennsylvania_, 127-29
Russia, Mennonites in, 89
Russians, as North Slavs, 164;
in United States, 169-70
Ruthenians (Ukranians), as North Slavs, 164;
in United States, 169
St. Lawrence River, French on, 18
St. Louis, Cabet in, 100;
Irish in, 113;
Germans in, 135;
Hungarian Jews in, 178;
Italians in, 180
St. Patrick's Day, observed in Boston (1737), 108;
in New York City (1762), 108;
(1776), 108;
(1784), 109
San Antonio, Italians in, 211
San Francisco, anti-Chinese attitude, 193, 194, 200;
Japanese excluded from public schools, 205
Savannah, Germans in, 127
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